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John Trapp on Psalms 33:2

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Psalms33:2

Verſ. 2. Praiſe the Lord with Harp] Or Cittern, Jubals invention, Gen. 4.21. much uſed by David, and others of old under the Jewiſh Pedagogy, as an help to devotion, as were alſo other Muſical Inſtruments, here, and elſewhere mentioned. Now it is otherwiſe: the beſt melody is to ſing Pſalms with grace in our hearts; and for other Muſick, when Aristotle was asked what he thought of it? he anſwered, Jouem nec canere neque cit haram pulſare, that Jupiter regarded it not.

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